{"id":344240,"date":"2026-06-20T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:09:10","slug":"fans-told-to-shelter-in-place-after-netherlands-5-1-win-over-sweden-in-houston-due-to-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344240\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans told to shelter in place after Netherlands&#8217; 5-1 win over Sweden in Houston due to lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Spectators at Saturday&#8217;s Netherlands-Sweden World Cup game were told to shelter in place at the end of the contest because of lightning in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the final whistle blew for the Netherlands&#8217; 5-1 win, an announcement was made and a warning was posted on the giant video boards at both ends of the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd of 68,777, which was overwhelmingly pro-Netherlands, danced and cheered as music played while waiting for the all-clear to exit Houston Stadium, which is home to the NFL&#8217;s Houston Texans and called NRG Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>The forecast near the stadium called for rain for about another hour after the game, until about 2 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Spectators at Saturday&#8217;s Netherlands-Sweden World Cup game were told to shelter in place at the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,79,80,731,172,991,3692],"class_list":["post-344240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl","tag-soccer","tag-weather","tag-wires-bot","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}